Summary of Yesterday - Southeast Arizona

There were fewer storms around yesterday (Friday Sept. 4th 2009) afternoon than on Thursday. Here at house we had thunder and outflows but no rain. Evening web cam shot above shows towers north of the Catalinas with a Cb off to the east. Only 19 of the 93 Pima County ALERT gauges had rainfall. Storms tended to be terrain-locked yesterday, although some very strong storms occurred at lower elevations out to the west of Phoenix during the evening, with some weaker cells out over central pima County. There were severe winds with storms out around Kingman (measured gust to 64 mph) and west to the Colorado River - six injuries at a trailer park in Mohave Valley. There was also a report of golf ball-sized hail out there. This morning there was a slow-moving arc of thunderstorms to the northwest of Tucson providing a bit of a lightning show at sunrise as the full moon set.